(On The Quest For) Beograd Underground, a Spanish film, presenting the Serbian underground comics and music scene, created by Luciano Muriel Buzarra, Carlos Lopez and Natasa Sarkic, and with Zograf as one of the narrators, was presented during July in Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. The article on this project was published in Serbian daily paper, Politika (in Serbian) - http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Kultura/Balkanski-pirati-na-evropskoj-turneji.lt.html

During the presentation of the new Serbian translations of the collections of comics by Crumb and Shelton, when their wives - Aline Kominsky Crumb and Lora Fountain were also present, Zograf conducted a talk with Robert Crumb, which turned into probably the biggest comics event in Serbia ever! Response by the local press was significant (all the links below are in Serbian, naturally).
First, national weekly Vreme published an 8+ pages long interview writen by Sasa Rakezic (alias Aleksandar Zograf-), with Crumb's drawing on a front page. It's the first time that this political magazines has devoted so much space to a cartoonist - http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=1069701
Zograf wrote an overview of Crumb's career , adding impressions on his stay in Belgrade (along with exclusive drawings by Crumb, with captions in English), for Politikin Zabavnik, a Belgrade's kids’ magazine, which has been in circulation since 1939. It's one of Crumb's rare appearances in a kids' magazine anywhere, with his drawing on the cover, and the article published on 4 pages, without a single word being extracted from the original manuscript, even though it mentions all the Crumb's basics, including politics, sex, drugs etc: http://politikin-zabavnik.rs/pz/tekstovi/%D1%98edan-u
E-novine reprinted the integral version of the interview with Crumb written by Vladimir Arsenijevic, and published originally in Croatian Jutranji list: http://www.e-novine.com/kultura/kultura-tema/71088-Kulturne-revolucije-naprosto-dogode.html
A video report at Serbian internet portal http://www.livetv.rs/Video/9313/Robert-Crumb-u-SKCu.shtml

In September, Zograf was a special guest of the animation festival Animanima, in Cacak, Central Serbia. His one-man show was part of the programme ( in Serbian) - http://www.animanima.org/prateci.php

MARCH - JUNE 2012

Aleksandar Zograf has received a prize named after avant garde writer Todor Manojlovic. The prize, which is aimed at artists from different fields, is for the first time, given to a cartoonist (in Serbian) - http://www.blic.rs/Kultura/Vesti/311100/Snovi-su-deo-stvarnosti , a 4 page intrerview was published in national weekly Novi Magazin.

A group of artists from several countries were invited to draw their stories about the city of Istanbul, Zograf is one of them. The comics collection, titled Ciztanbul, and published by Rodeo, a comics publisher from Istanbul, is a publication that aims at general public. (in Turkish) - http://ciztanbul.com/2012/03/09/ciztanbul-sanatcilari-aramizda-olacak/

In his GRRR!Program at Elektrika, Zograf presented Damjana Mraovic O'Hare from Cleveland's Case Western University, fanzine called Antidepresiv, and bands Kodagain and Radio Moskva. See the report on a local television (in Serbian) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvjMOku0-w4

Triedere, an Austrian art theory periodical, has its latest issue dedicated to 9th Art. It includes a selection of comics from Serbia and Bosnia, including Aleksandar Zograf, Nina Bunjevac, Wostok and Filip Andronik (in German):

The internet voting for the best comics edition in Poland in 2011 placed Aleksandar Zograf's first-ever Polish collection of comics on the second position! Hip- Hip- Hooray! http://www.komiksyroku.pl/main/wyniki2011

In early January, in Seattle, Zograf's work was a matter of academic discussion at the panel named "Graphic Narratives Re-telling History: Serbia and Bosnia", organized by The Slavic & East European Literatures Division of the Modern Language Association of America. Among the panelists were Lisa Mangum, and Jessie Labov, and Damjana Mraovic-O'Hare presented her paper named "How We Survived War, Sanctions, and NATO Bombing, And Then Laughed: Regards from Serbia by Aleksandar Zograf" - http://mlaslavicdivision2012.blogspot.com/p/graphic-narratives-re-telling-history_10.html

Zograf' is one of the authors featured in WAR: THE HUMAN COST, a collection of comics that goes with 19 track War & Peace CD, published by British label Paper Tiger Comics, as part of the Campaign Against Arms Trade. A thick volume includes works by Steve Bell, Spain Rodriguez, Mack White, Mazen Kerbaj, Marcel Ruijters, Peter Kuper,Colin Upton, and more. http://www.papertigercomix.com/?page_id=9

Aleksandar Zograf is one of the personalities featured in On the Quest for Beograd Underground, a documentary dedicated to Serbian independent comics and music scene, made by Spanish director Muriel Buzzara. Film is touring around Europe at the moment, see the trailer http://www.beogradunderground.com/

Kika Negroni is hosting a show named Flatland, for the Brescia's radio station Radio Onda d'Urto. One of the shows consist of an interview with Giovanni Ferarra, who is talking on Zograf's Italian books published by Fandango, a publishing house where Ferarra works as an editor. You can listen to the show (in Italian) at : http://flatlandia.radiondadurto.org/2012/02/20/aleksandar-zograf/

Flock of Dreamers, Kitchen Sink's 1998 collection of dream inspired comics, edited by Sasa Rakezic alias Aleksandar Zograf and Bob Kathman, and quite hard to find, could be ordered through ABE book catalogue, in theit WEIRD BOOK ROOM section http://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/0878165495 , among artists included are Robert Crumb, Rick Veitch, Jim Woodring and many more...